Sculpture Gardens

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

Moss-covered sculptures fill this small Brazilian gorge.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A melting pot of Asian-Pacific art features one symbolic sculpture from each of 20 different nations.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.